"get out of step" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to lose synchronization or become out of line with something or someone else. An example of using this phrase in a sentence could be: "The dancers had rehearsed for weeks, but on the day of the performance, one of them accidentally got out of step with the rest of the group." This sentence conveys that one dancer made a mistake or lost their timing with the rest of the group during the performance.
It is hardly the first board on Wall Street, though, to let pay get out of step with performance.
However, in a population of motors, given the dispersion in rotation speeds, this signal will rapidly decay, as different motors get out of step.
There is clearly a danger that the economics and politics of the complex US-China relationship may get out of step.
But get out of step with it and suddenly you're left with the headache of being the only sober person in a room full of furry freaks.
A clock controlled by such a maser would not get out of step more than one second in 100,000 years.
So by using Soho instruments to analyze how some sound waves get out of step with one another (as some move faster) the location of disturbances on the far side can be determined.
By laying the blame on the female sect, men can get out of stepping up to the plate and putting in the effort to provide a mutually loving and satisfying relationship.
Renewal has become increasingly common because of the number of companies getting out of step with their environments.
With Netflix, if the price gets out of step with what the company delivers you every month, it's a pretty simple decision to stop subscribing.
For all his bravado, and Thatcherite resolve, Osborne will remember from his 2012 "omnishambles" budget how fortunes can dip dramatically when a government gets out of step with the public's sense of fairness.
But he made no secret of the fact that if Cyprus were to be ceded to any country, that country should be Turkey: because, he reasoned, Turkey had once owned it, while the Greeks, from Homer's time onwards, had merely settled there.As time passed, Mr Denktash got out of step with his people.
